"You really want us to go our separate ways that badly?" he asked with difficulty, his hands that hung at his sides tightened into fists.

He had decided to risk everything and act earlier than planned for her sake, but the woman he loved was telling him that she wanted to have nothing to do with him!

"Shouldn't I?" she retorted. "We made a clean break and have kept our distance from each other for five years. Why did you suddenly come back to see me? Do you really think that things will work o